To Brian, from the Family:
Happy 19th Birthday Brian. Here’s wishing you a great year and many happy adventures to follow!
Love, Dad, Pam, Carlie, and McKenzie… Read More
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Our Himalayan Trekking Adventure!
Hello Family and Friends!
Wow.That’s the first word that comes to mind when reflecting back on the amazing experience we all had hiking through the Himalayas. Our first day we came together immediatley as a group–bound by the unified joy of being out in nature. We had been itching to get to the mountains since Calcutta and we had finally made it! And thank goodness we had those high spirits… Read More
Welcome To The Jungle
GOL!!!!! In the 93rd minute in La Casa Blanca in Quito, the away team put a laser into the upper 90 to tie the game. That was last sunday. Monday took us to the amazon… so, after another extended bus ride, we arrived in Puyo, the capital of this province. From there, one of the volunteers we´re staying with — Jeremy, a pretty chill guy from Cali whose travels have… Read More
Chi Chi maybe the Chi Chiest
HOla from Xela! Today was our last day at Casa Xelaju. Tomorrow we are headed to San Marcos for a week of yoga and meditation. Before we get ahead of ourselves, we must talk about the past week in Xela We enjoyed a nice day of shopping in Chichistenango. As you can see in the picture below, we took a chicken bus for transportation. We shopped for a while on… Read More
our wonderful leaders!lexi, lauren f, brian, heather, hannah, and kelly in the hot springs!lauren w and griffin in barrio ixobel (old picture but griffins smiling!)… Read More
all of us on emily and lauren fs bed at a hostel in chichi!adam, kelly, brooke, emily, and brian after volunteering at la pedrera. a nice view of xela!… Read More
Mas fotos…
A few more photos for all you wonderful blog followers….
The cloud forest was so beautiful… the little house is where we stayed.
The Chicken Bus ride back from chichi….so many people on the bus!!
The Dude Shack in the cloud forest…Brian, Griffin, and Adam
The group at Tikal on top of one of the temples! From L to R: Lexi, Griffin, Hannah, Brian, Brooke,Emily, Lauren W, Kelly, Adam, Lauren… Read More
Hey peeps. Hope you´re all doing as fabulously as we are. We once again spent the last we separated. The Blink 182ers headed to the forest to spend a tranquilo week in the Bosque Nublado. Much like the last group we spent the days teaching English in two different schools (with super cute ninos). Once our work was done we were able to take some time to explore the beautiful… Read More
Gangtok, Sikkim
Namaste! After a ten hour train ride and a beautiful but extremely bumpy seven hour jeep ride that winded up through the mountains, we arrived in Gangtok, Sikkim. Originally it was supposed to take five hours to get to Gangtok via jeep however, after bouncing around in the back for an hour, our car came to a complete halt. As the Lonely Planet had warned us to be prepared for… Read More
Xela maybe the Xelajuest!
Hey everyone!Hope you liked the pictures, there are more to come.Uploading is easy this week because we are staying in the second largest city in Guatemala, Xela. There is a gorgeous central park and tons of things to do everyday. Everyone is living in a homestay again, some farther then others, but all the families are great.Daily life in Xela goes a little something like this: school starts at 8:00… Read More
Photos!
Ariel view from samuc champay, where we went last weekend for the dayHiking to the Cloud Forest (from left to right griffin, brian, kelly, emily, lauren f)Climbing to the top of one of the temples at Tikal!Sitting inside one of the Mayan ruins at Tikal (lexi, lauren f, emily, and brooke)Our whole group in a cave at barrio ixobel! ( top left to right: brian, heather,… Read More
Hola parents. We are yet again finishing up another week in beautiful Ecuador. Sadly our group of nine was split in two this last week. One group consisting of Amanda, Andrew, Jordan, Jordi, Hannah and Alejandro, visited the cloud forest outside of Otavalo. They spent their time teaching at two different rural schools. The little ninos were absolutely adorable. We taught them as much English as possible, as well as… Read More
Cloudy, Maybe the Cloudiest.
Dear mothers, lovers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors and beloved pets,
Greetings from Coban! We are staying in a Hostal tonight and taking a lengthy bus ride to Xela tomorrow morning, but, lets not get too ahead of ourselves here. You must know about last week first!
We left San Andres for Coban last Sunday. We stayed in the same Hostal we are staying in now, it is very clean… Read More
Kolkata aka Calcutta aka sweatbox
Hey everybody!
For the past week we have been sweating it out in Kolkata, getting to know each other a lot better as we all shared a HUGE dorm room at an inexpensive yet awesome guest house in the heart of the city. Our week has included a lot of metropolitan overload. Think New York City only WAY louder and more crowded and no rules. A quiet cafe with awesome… Read More
Sarnath and Bodhgaya
Hello family and friends. We are now just about three weeks into the trip and time is starting to fly by. We are currently taking in the sites of Calcutta, however, I will be talking about our last day in Varanasi and our brief stint in Bodghgaya. On our last day in Varanasi, the group decided to venture about an hour north to a place called Sarnath. Sarnath is holy… Read More
Old, maybe the Oldest.
Hola everyone! We just finished our first week of spanish school and we all learned a lot! Most of us had our own teacher, and all of them were great. We spent 4 hrs each morning at the school and spent the afternoons swimming in the lake, or doing various activities. We took a boat trip into Flores to shop on thurs. and stopped at a small museum on the… Read More
¡Language School in Cuenca!
We are wrapping up another week of this bacancisimo trip and figured it was about time for another blog! Today was our last day of Espanol classes and its been SAMtastic. Each person has been learning and improving at their own pace. We´ve have been spending our mornings from 8 to 12 in class or going on creative field trips to markets, museums, or parques and then later enjoying the… Read More
Varanasi
Namaste. Our dearest family and friends!We have been in India only a week and a half, but the thick air and yellow sun has already colored our skin. The vivid smells and sights of the streets have absorbed us, leaving our clean bodies and clear minds feeling like a distant recollection. We are now in Varanasi a city on the banks of the great and holy Ganges River. Varanasi is… Read More
Calor, maybe the Caloriest.
Grettings from San Andres, Guatemala.
We arrived in the very hot town of San Andres yesterday after a week full of Guatemalan traditions, holidays, parades, pageants, and costume contests. The week started with carnivale where we were all covered in flour and confetti thrown on us by the local children. The next day was a mardi gras parade where we were once again attacked by the children. On friday it… Read More
Rio Muchacho and on to Language School in Cuenca
¡Hola familia y amigos! Its been a great past week spent in Rio Muchacho- an organic farm in the transition region of Ecuador. Not only have we spent the past week farming and adjusting to creating zero waste but we have also been learning about the different aspects of organic farming such as composting, the lunar calendar, and problems with most US farms. We have been able to meet incredible… Read More